1948
the official German newsreel revealed "nearly
300,000 died in Auschwitz"

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BY CHANCE we have
obtained a videotape of the German ARD Television
broadcast, VOR VIERZIG
JAHREN" transmitted on the
Third Programme on January 8, 1988. This contained
the
entire German movie newsreel
(Wochenschau) released
in Germany forty years earlier, on January 8, 1948,
with the title Welt im Film. This newsreel
contained a report on the closing scenes of the
Krakow Auschwitz Trial late in 1947.

"Da ich sonst nirgends über
diesen Prozeß gelesen oder gehört
hatte", our informant tells us, "machte ich mir
eine Video-Kopie." (He has asked to remain
anonymous, as Germany's laws for the suppression of
free speech may make his possession of such a film
a criminal offence).

Download the original 80-second newsreel segment
(2.5 MB) direct from David Irving's website

The
1948 German newsreel is a startling, indeed a
sensational video-document. Here is a verbatim
transcript (with translation) of the 1948 newsreel
soundtrack:

"IN
KRAKOW the trial of the principal culprits for the
Auschwitz concentration camp came to an end before
a Polish court . The defendants were German camp
guards or members of the German camp administration
staff. Unheard-of atrocities against the camp
inmates, particularly against female prisoners,
were proved against them. Altogether nearly
300,000 people from the most different nations died
in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The court
sentenced 23 of the accused to death, six to life
sentences, and ten to lengthy jail terms; one was
acquitted. The Auschwitz concentration camp remains
as it stands today, as a monument of shame to the
lasting memory of its three hundred thousand
victims."